Sophie-Louise Dann is Thinking Outside the Box
I’ve just had a most glorious week in a rehearsal room. Then, within the space of a four-hour call, with Hollywood heavyweight Kelsey Grammer, Gillian Bevan and Michael Praed... putting a scene together in act two of The Boy Friend - which was scheduled to play at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Totonto, Canada (under the banner of The Menier Chocolate Factory) - we were called up into the main studio and told by our wonderful producer, Paul Elliott, that forty-five minutes earlier the decision had been taken to close all of the Mirvish Theatres for the first time in their history due to the global Coronavirus situation. He had come straight to the rehearsal room to tell us all.
Unfortunately, because it was such a small call, much of the young company were not at rehearsals that day. Of course, there’s nothing worse than getting a message in your inbox - but the fact remains that we’re cancelled!
We probably knew the writing was on the wall when Broadway went dark on 13 March, but it’s all happened so quickly hasn’t it.
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